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Beach House

Blissful. Wrap yourself in vocoders and sample pads, steal drums and sonic sunlight. Let Hugo Manuel (a.k.a Chad Valley) be your desert island disc, for today at least. The NME (on a quick google) describe him as ‘to chillwave what Katy B is to dubstep’. I have no idea what this means.

So its been too long since I could fill my lungs with the millions of colourful and curious bytes that make up the internet but im back in the game now and this blog needs some furniture.

Since my online blackout I’ve found myself hoarding CDs, a few gambles which did not pay off (Kubb‘s 2005 album which was available in Poundland was quite frankly optimistically priced), but also a bundle of delightful offerrings from RJD2, Beach House, Memory Tapes, and some older records from Richard Hawley and The Black Keys. Delightful stuff. It feels odd to start seeing “2010” on the back of CDs especially when you think about the distinctions we make today between decades gone by. Any of these artists are poised ready to define the decade of music, god knows they’re good enough.

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RJD2 – A Son’s Cycle

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Beach House – Norway

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Memory Tapes- Run Out

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